Welfare Abusers in 12 States Just Got Some Brutal Bad News

In most states, people collecting welfare can “earn” more money than if they worked full time at a minimum wage job, and these welfare payouts can take up roughly one-quarter to one-third of each individual state’s budget.

In order to cut down on these insanely high and growing costs, many states have moved to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in their welfare programs.

One method many states have chosen to do this, and that 12 more states are now seriously looking at, is through drug testing for welfare recipients, the theory being that if someone has enough money to buy and use drugs, they don’t need or deserve welfare assistance from taxpayers.

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Of course liberals will weep and wail and gnash their teeth, calling the drug testing of welfare recipients cruel, unfair and discriminatory, apparently oblivious to the fact that a majority of the workers who pay the taxes that fund welfare were required to pass a drug test in order to get their jobs.

Since Congress can’t be counted on to reform the failing, yet exploding, welfare system, the states are compelled to fix the system themselves.

A number of states are looking at legislation this year that would implement various levels of drug testing to their welfare programs.

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Those states are: Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia (H/T Mad World News). Notice that more than just a few of those states are “blue,” controlled by Democrats, yet they are still looking to crackdown on welfare abuse.

If these 12 states do in fact pass their laws and institute drug testing as a requirement for welfare, then they would join other states with similar laws on the books, meaning over half of the country would be drug testing their welfare recipients in one form or another.

This should be a no-brainer for most states, as the idea has a lot of support from the general population of taxpayers, who often have to take a drug test in order to make the money which is then taxed to fund government handout programs like welfare.

Since progressives are all about fairness and equality, they should be on board with this move, as it places everyone, both the employed and the unemployed, in the same drug-free boat.